Jenny Telford, general manager of the Census and Population division at the ABS, said keeping people's data safe and private was "absolutely critical"."The ABS has lots of protections, including legal protections, that mean we can never release information in any way that can identify an individual or a household," she told SBS News."When you complete that Census form, your name and address are kind of separated away from all of the other answers on the form really early in our process, and we also make commitments that we adhere to to destroy names and addresses once we've processed the Census and produced the statistics that .. The agency also states people's addresses are collected to: After the Census processing period is complete, no-one working with Census data is able to view personal identifiers at the same time as survey results.Names included in this year's Census forms will be retained for up to 18 months after the Census, until the end of February 2028